[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Facebook is taking over your phone]

[agnes at mcn.org]

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Subject: Facebook is taking over your phone
From:    "Kaytee Riek, SumOfUs.org" <us at sumofus.org>
Date:    Sat, August 16, 2014 11:43 am
To:      "Agnes S. Woolsey" <agnes at mcn.org>
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      Facebook is forcing users to install a messaging app that gives it
access
   to a wealth of personal data and allows it to control your phone without
   your permission.

   Tell Facebook to stop this shocking invasion of users' privacy.

   [1]Sign the Petition

   Agnes,

   In a breathtakingly creepy invasion of privacy, Facebook is forcing all
   smartphone users to install a new messaging app. The Android version of
   the app -- and to a lesser extent the iPhone version as well -- allows
   Facebook to access your phone camera and record audio, call and send
   messages without your permission, identify details about you and all your
   contacts, and send that info on to third parties.

   If you want to carry on sending and receiving messages on Facebook you now
   have no choice but to install Facebook Messenger - and give the company
   access to a wealth of personal data stored on your phone.

   Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has also admitted that his long-term plan
   is to 'monetize' the app, so we need to act now before the app becomes
   impossible to stop.

   [2]Tell Facebook to stop invading its users' privacy and allow people to
   keep using the old messenger feature.

   The company claims that it is simply improving the user experience, and
   that it doesn't have control over the permissions required for the app,
   specifically on Android phones. But there's a simple solution to the
   problem: don't make users download the new messenger.

   Most people installing the app have absolutely no idea what they just
   agreed to. So we need to spread the word about Facebook's shocking privacy
   invasion -- and if we can make this petition huge, Facebook will have to
   listen.

   [3]Sign the petition and share it on Facebook.

   Thanks for all you do,

   Kaytee, Angus, Hanna, Jon and the rest of us at SumOfUs



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   More information:

   [4]Facebook's Messenger app wants all of your personal information,
   Canada.com, July 31 2014
   [5]Facebook Is Forcing Messenger on Users and They Aren't Happy About It,
   Mashable July 30 2014
   [6]The Insidiousness of Facebook Messenger's Mobile App Terms of Service,
   Huffington Post, December 1 2013

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